American Quote by Jessica Tarlov

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of…

— Steve King

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a…

— Roy Moore

The American Founding Fathers gave us courts, independent jurists. They left room for civil society, which meant that citizens could directly associate in order…

— Condoleezza Rice

We had so many different presidents, including Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln - there were other founders like Hamilton, Adams - who made it very clear…

— Mike Huckabee

I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and…

— James Clapper

What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this:…

— Mark Levin

America's founders were clear that the Constitution established a federal government of few and defined powers. It cannot regulate any activity it chooses, but…

— Orrin Hatch

“The whole stress of Washington’s presidency, underlined by his farewell, was on the absolute necessity to obey the Constitution. As he said on many…

— Paul Johnson

Going back all the way to the founding, there was a recognition that in the same way that you need the Constitution to create…

— Lina Khan

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions. It entrusts…

— Mike DeWine